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Why did the Emancipation proclamation "omit", or leave out, freeing slaves in the border states?

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Lincoln exempted the border states from the proclamation because he didn't want to tempt them into joining the Confederacy. Because the proclamation was a temporary war measure, it later had to be codified into law with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.

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